User:MatthewVanitas/Dajjal Flag

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What is the relation between the Biblical term for 'flag' /degel/ and the English word (of Danish origin, from Scandinavian) /flag/?

commonality in 'paving'
From the meaning 'pitch, tar, asphalt' for the related word /dujayl/ can be found the likeness between the use of asphalt in ordinary road-paving and the use of "flag-stones" in the fancy paving of ornamental sites (walkways through formal gardens, etc.). This commonality may be reflected in the likeness between the two maxims "War [cf. use of flags in war] is HELL", and "The road to HELL is PAVED with good intentions". (These two maxims suggest, between them, to trample on the flag.)

Military flags
The name /Dajjāl/ is cognate with the word /degel/ 'flag, banner, standard' (Strong's 1714). Because the Dajjāl is, in historical texts, primarily associated with the siege of Constantinopolis/Istanbul in 674-8 CE, therefore the specific flag alluded to must presumably be the Byzantine standard, the labarum. At this period the ʔUmayyad flag bore no emblem, being plain white; for the prohibition against "idol-worship" in the Qurʔān was, in that epoch, as yet deemed to apply to emblems depicted on flags. (Not until many centuries later such pagan emblems as the pentagram creep onto flags.)

Other flags
Besides military standards, the term /degel/ 'flag' may be applied to a 'signal flag' as used in Byzantine communications; if so, then the use of another military substitute for signal-flags, the heliograph, may be implied in the meaning 'mirror' of the word /diglu/, cognate with /dajjāl/. (Here, perhaps, there may be an allusion to the "mirror of Dharma" wherein the evil deeds of malign malefactors (in this case, militarists) are displayed (reflected) in the Hall of Judgement in City of Dharma [the Netherworld].)

ʕArabic dajjāl
The term /Dajjāl/ is now commonly employed in ʔIslamic literature to refer to a specific person predicted to arrive in some apocalyptic future to become ruler of the world, immediately before the arrival of ʕīsay, his successor. However, the earlier usage of the name Dajjāl is historical, to allude to the Byzantine empire, particularly to some agency of it to which is ascribed the cause for the withdrawals of the armies sent by the ĥalif of the ʔUmayyad empire in the 7th century of the Christian era. This transmutation of a historical character of the past into an apocalyptic figure of the future is a curiosity needing to be accounted for; (ignoring the literal deduction that some prediction of a revival of some function of the Byzantine empire may be involved) some of this accounting can be done via etymology.

distinction between Chrēstos & Christos
This "Chrēstos" is the Chrēstian (such is the authentic term, along with "Chrēstos", as employed by Tacitus, the word "Christian" being an inauthentic neologism) title for Iēsous (Jesus). As such the "Chrēstos" of the Chrēstians is the same being as the "Dajjāl" of ʔIslam, and is distinct from (thus "not confound" Chrēstos with Christos) the Christos = Māšiyaḥ who is lauded by the nabiʔîm (prophets) in the Tnak.

Chrēstos as personification of the flag
The flag-staff of the vexillum, consisting of a mast with cross-beam, is represented (caricatured) in the stauros (crux, cross); from it is suspended the cloth flag represented (caricatured) in Chrēstos. Therefore, the etymological relationship between /DeGel/ and Norse /DaG-/ = Sanskrit /DaH-/ 'to burn' would not merely suggest the ritual of flag-burning, but would also tend to confirm the doctrine (upheld by the Naṣuray/Manday of Aĥwaz) that Chrēstos (Jesus Christ) is burning forever in eternal Hell-fire.

flag as worldly riches of Mammôn
That the labarum -- "Roman military standard of the later times, richly ornamented with ... precious stones" is indicated by the worldly riches of Mammôn, may be confirmed by the meaning 'gem' of the word /digilu/ or /digalu/, cognate with /dajjāl/.

condign punishment
How to secure eternal punishment in Hell for Jesus Christ (known for his worldliness as the "Mammôn" so avidly worshipped in Christian "Prosperity Theology") is a most VEXIng problem in VEXIllology : perhaps a suggestion to keep him tarred with black tar (as Dajjāl who is known as "black man" according to Buĥari, vol, 4., bk. 56, no. 807) and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail is implied in the Latin term /pix/, whereby "Boiling pitch was poured on the bodies of slaves as a punishment". In order that such a punishment so fittingly condign should be markedly remarked on by socio-historical commentators, the emblem venerated on the Byzantine vexillum (flag) is the bookmark-sign known as "XPHCTOC" (chrēstos).